Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
A step-by-step guide to writing and managing the writer's life covers each portion of a written project, addresses such concerns as writer's block and getting published, and offers awareness and survival tips. Reprint. Tour. K. NYT. more
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Anne Lamott / 1995 / 239 pages Books |
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Pages: 239, Edition: 1, Paperback, Anchor |
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Dec-19-2008
- Learn to become a better writer and a better you.
Very interesting read that offers sound, simple strategies sure to improve your writing. I especially enjoyed LaMott's tidbits that offer some insight into overcoming life's obstacles. I found an audio recording from LaMott called WORD...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Dec-13-2008
- BIRD BY BIRD by Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird is a 1994 book on writing and life by novelist and writing instructor Anne Lamott. This is partly a book on writing and partly a memoir - obviously, when writers write books on writing, this is not an infrequent combination,...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Dec-08-2008
- Wonderful Book!
Lamott frames her book with the story of her then elementary school-aged brother's struggle to complete an assigned book report on birds. Lamott recalls her father's advice to his overwhelmed son--"Just take it bird by bird," he said....
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-22-2008
- Refreshing and Encouraging
The pressure is tremendous. To write a review of a book on writing -- the review almost has to smack of winning a Pulitzer. Well, I'm no writer, so I'll do my best.The frankness of Lamott is very refreshing. So many books on writing just...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Dec-19-2008
- Learn to become a better writer and a better you.
Very interesting read that offers sound, simple strategies sure to improve your writing. I especially enjoyed LaMott's tidbits that offer some insight into overcoming life's obstacles. I found an audio recording from LaMott called WORD...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Dec-13-2008
- BIRD BY BIRD by Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird is a 1994 book on writing and life by novelist and writing instructor Anne Lamott. This is partly a book on writing and partly a memoir - obviously, when writers write books on writing, this is not an infrequent combination,...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-12-2008
- helps the author, not the reader
The best advice is in the title, which is, in other words, "step by step." I can't remember if it is this book, or "Plan B," in which the author recounts taking rolls of dimes from an older black woman in the church she attended, even...
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